Ding

Pronunciation

• UK IPA: /dɪŋ/
• US IPA: /ˈdiːŋ/
• Rhymes: -ɪŋ

From Middle English dingen, dyngen, perhaps from the merger of Old English dengan (" to ding, beat, strike", weak verb.) and Old Norse dengja ("to hammer", weak verb.); both from Proto-Germanic *dangijaną ("to beat, hammer, peen"), from Proto-Indo-European *dʰen- ("to beat, push"). Cognate with Icelandic dengja ("to hammer"), Swedish dänga ("to bang, beat"), Danish dænge ("to bang, beat"), German tengeln, dengeln ("to peen").

Full definition of ding

Noun

1. (informal) Very minor damage, a small dent or chip.
2. (colloquial) A rejection.I just got my first ding letter.

Verb

1. (transitive) To sound, as a bell; to ring; to clang.The elevator dinged and the doors opened.
2. (transitive) To hit or strike.
3. To dash; to throw violently.
• Miltonto ding the book a coit's distance from him
4. (transitive) To inflict minor damage upon, especially by hitting or striking.If you surf regularly, then you're going to ding your board. — BBC surfing Wales http://www.bbc.co.uk/wales/surfing/sites/features/pages/dings.shtml
5. (transitive, colloquial) To fire or reject.His top school dinged him last week.
6. (transitive, colloquial) To deduct, as points, from another, in the manner of a penalty.My bank dinged me three bucks for using their competitor's ATM.
7. (transitive, golf) To mishit (a golf ball).

Derived terms

• ding up

Onomatopoeic. Compare ding-dong,

Noun

1. A high-pitched sound of a bell, especially with wearisome continuance.

Verb

1. (intransitive) To make high-pitched sound like a bell.
• Washington IrvingThe fretful tinkling of the convent bell evermore dinging among the mountain echoes.
2. (transitive) To keep repeating; impress by reiteration, with reference to the monotonous striking of a bell.
• 1884, Oswald Crawfurd, English comic dramatists:If I'm to have any good, let it come of itself; not keep dinging it, dinging it into one so.
3. (intransitive, colloquial, gaming) To level up

Romanized from Mandarin 鼎

Noun

1. Ancient Chinese vessel with legs and a lid; also called ting.----